Two no fuss time saving worksheets with exercises in both tenses and then an exercise where students are supposed to choose which of the two tenses they should use. There are references to La Casa de Bernarda Alba and Ocho Apellidos Vascos.

Three different approaches to tackle that topic in essay form

A Powerpoint starting with a sentence builder, some listening exercises, some fill the gap exercises, supported writing and reading activities (the reading activities use characters from the film Intouchables but it is not necessary to have seen the film to do the tasks) This can also be used for online teaching.

This is a PowerPoint that includes asking for clothes and a few accessories using “the”/ “a” and “some”/ “this”, “that”, “these” and “those”. It also includes details about the clothes such as sleeveless or in a light or dark shade and in a certain material. It has practical tips about sizing in France, some gap-filling exercises, some translation exercises, a snake and ladder game and some reading and writing exercises. It is suitable to set for online learning

The exercises are based on a text about someone’s use of devices, social networks etc… This document has been checked by a French native speaker.

This can be used as a place mat or a poster in class or an individual worksheet or a PowerPoint which can be adapted to suit needs.

Three texts about the journeys of three different immigrants followed by quiz e.g. find the person who… and find the French for. Good for the revision of the perfect tense in French, verbs to talk about travel, transports and of course feelings/ emotions.

Three songs where gap filling and reordering is required. (Topics of family and home)

A PowerPoint with guidance to students as to how to tackle the stimulus card. Has references to AQA examples.

Are you setting up a KS3 email/ video exchange with a school in France? This is a template to help you guide your students to do so. It has been checked by a native speaker. Feel free to adapt.

Means of transport around the world- Quiz- Answers on slide show.

Very easy listening/ reading exercise on places around town in Spanish suitable for Key Stage 3 for lower sets. Can be set as cover work or online work. Some adaptations would make it more challenging. Writing or translation exercises could also easily follow.

Based on a resource in the textbook Voilà 2. this PowerPoint offers further practice on manipulating the perfect tense in French. It will need updating in terms of players to modernise it over the years, but the French Perfect tense will stay the French Perfect tense.

A list of common irregular verbs and radical changing verbs, plus 18 phrases that can be included in ANY context in written and oral work.

A worksheet requiring students to put items of a sentence in the correct order, to translate from French to English, to notice gender and number agreements and to translate into French. Relates to the topic of leisure activities.

This PowerPoint walks students through the meaning of some adjectives and attracts their attention to gender agreement. It then explains how to form the comparative both in English and Spanish. Using a number of English idioms, it then leads students to learn a few Spanish idioms using “más… que” eg más alto que un pino.

Do you have Year 9 students who sadly have not chosen GCSE Spanish as an option? Is it hard to keep them going? Are they losing interest? After giving them examples of where and when they can use Spanish, you could give them these worksheets to use on every occasion and show how friendly they can be. Ranging from a simple “Hola” to “¿Qué puedo hacer para ayudarle?” Can obviously be adapted. Many subsequent exercises to keep students practising for a good three lessons.

A basic bingo game for a class of 24 students. The idea is that you read some English equivalent e.g. At what time? When? the train? Leaves? Is it? Direct? etc… Students cross off the Spanish. The extension work is for them to make up as many questions as possible using one card/ two cards etc… Could be split and used as noughts and crosses. Could be easily adapted to a snake and ladder game etc…

Please find the script of the film. It has timings so that you can easily refer to specific scenes. You can also create gapped activities. You can find the most relevant quotes for the characters. You can use at the same time as viewing the film and students can focus on how the scenes are enhanced through the use of colours and music for example. I sat down for many hours transcribing the film (10 minutes of film took me an hour to transcribe) hence the higher price compared to my usual resources. The script has been checked by a native speaker where I work. There are a couple of sentences neither of us was able to understand but 99.99% of the film is transcribed.

Tests on whole chunks of impressive phrases using various tenses. Very useful throughout a GCSE course or for revision. Also includes a gap filling song worksheet on the topic of jobs